Aviva will contribute to Constructor de Futuro the building for the future project, through its involvement in corporate volunteering in Spain.
Aviva will contribute to Constructor de Futuro, the building for the future project, through its involvement in corporate volunteering in Spain.
Aviva, a leading provider of life insurance and pensions in Europe, has signed an agreement with Aldeas Infantiles SOS, the Spanish division of SOS Children’s Villages, the international private children’s organisation, to join them as a Constructor de Futuro (future builder) and to participate in corporate voluntary work.
Aldeas Infantiles SOS business platform will allow Aviva to develop part of its social actions in areas involving children and young people in vulnerable situations. The aim of this partnership is to encourage the development and independence of these children, by providing temporary care, preventing cruelty and abuse, and strengthening family and social networks.
Under the banner Constructor de Futuro, specifically created for major corporations, Aviva will contribute to the upkeep of one of the eight Aldeas Infantiles SOS children’s villages in Spain. In addition, some of the resources provided by Aviva may be channelled into any of its other 90 SOS programmes or centres for prevention, social integration or incorporation into the workplace that the NGO has throughout Spain.
The agreement also covers another form of collaboration, corporate volunteering, which aims to use the talents of Aviva’s workforce for social development.
Ignacio Izquierdo, Aviva’s CEO in Spain said: “We are particularly pleased to extend Aviva’s social efforts by joining this project to help children. Aldeas Infantiles SOS began over 60 years ago, and now provides shelter for over 450,000 children and young people all over the world, including 3,500 in Spain.”
He also added that: “We think the work they do is admirable, particularly because of the improvements that Aldeas Infantiles SOS makes to the future of these children, and to society as a whole.”
According to Juan Belda, president of Aldeas Infantiles SOS Spain: "Every year 10 million children worldwide die because of a failure to provide family care. In Spain, some 500,000 children need social assistance and every year 40,000 are admitted to hospital as a result of abuse. Bringing this reality to people’s attention, and providing companies and society as a whole with concrete projects to help vulnerable children and young people, is our reason for being.”
He added that “we are delighted to welcome Aviva to our project and we are sure that we will achieve great things together, because it is a company that shares our vision of preparing a better future than the present.”
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For more information please contact:
Aviva
Rosa Mar Mayoral
Telephone: +34 629 571 746
Email: rmayoral@ulled.com
Laura Villuendas
Telephone: +34 912 971 817 / +34 696 576 921
Email: laura.villuendas@aviva.es
Aldeas Infantiles
Gracia Escudero
Telephone: +34 913 24 24 00 / +34 649 811 777
Email: gescudero@aldeasinfantiles.es
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About Aviva
Aviva is the world’s sixth largest insurance group, and leader in the international market for insurance and long-term savings products. It is Europe’s leading provider of life insurance and pensions.
Aviva Spain is one of the leading companies in the life insurance and pensions sectors. It markets its products through professional advisers (Aviva Vida y Pensiones) and through strategic alliances with Spain’s principal savings banks (Bancaja, Caixa Galicia, Unicaja, Caja España, CajaGranada and Cajamurcia)
Aldeas Infantiles SOS
Aldea Infantiles SOS’s mission is to assist children and young people who are in vulnerable situations, and to foster the development and independence of these children, by providing temporary care, to prevent cruelty and abuse, and strengthening family and social networks.
It is the world’s biggest private organisation providing direct care to children and young people. It is non-profit, interfaith and free from any political orientation, and for over 60 years it has operated in 132 countries.
Aldeas Infantiles SOS Spain has 8 villages in Spain: Barcelona, Pontevedra, Madrid, Granada, Cuenca, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Zaragoza and Las Palmas, and it finances 15 villages in Latin America and 1 in Africa. Aldeas Infantiles SOS in Spain has helped some 14,620 children and young people.